We only went a few miles today, but were gone for five hours. We checked out the marina, several campgrounds, rode across the spillway a few times, and stopped at a lot of overlooks. A very scenic day.
We stopped at the Interpretive Center & Museum and were pleasantly surprised. It had all kinds of fossils, wildlife mounts, real life turtles, snakes, toad frogs, salamanders, fish, honeybees, etc. It had very detailed information regarding the species living on the land and in the lake. It also had a lot of history about the construction of Fort Peck Lake. We viewed numerous Pelecanus, (aka Pelicans), and Comorant's, (aka Water Divers), in the River from the Interpretive Center back door.
We had a picnic lunch with a gorgeous view at the Louis and Clark Overlook, then returned to the Interpretive Center to take a tour of the Power House. We followed Katy, our guide, from the Interpretive Center to the Power House. It was a very informative tour. Afterwards, I realized the energy to flip the light switch on is a lot more complicated than I ever thought about.
Our 3rd stop at the Interpretive Center today was to view the Star Lab. We crawled our way into a dark, pretty dome lit up with the constellations . Our guide was very knowledgeable about the Greek Gods and their contributions to the constellation. We were mind boggled by the information we received, as we crawled back out to the light.
We took a ride a few miles past the lake to the Bad Lands, rode by the Montana Veterans Memorial, and made it back to camp.
It has been a warm, windy day. We are glad we have electric hookups in this 90 degree weather, Thanks to all that those in the 1930's that worked hard and made sacrifices to provide us with electricity to cool us off on this gorgeous lake.
Just woke up!!!
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